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Rosenhan Experiment

Description: In 1973, the Rosenhan Experiment instigated a major controversy within the field of psychotherapy by the results that implied psychotherapy professionals were incapable of recognizing healthy individuals. In the experiment, eight mentally healthy actors checked themselves into 12 different psychiatric hospitals across the United States over a three year period. They used the same script to be admitted, describing an odd auditory hallucination. Once they were admitted, the actors stopped any pretense and acted as they normally would. However, they were each diagnosed with either schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosis, and none of them were allowed to leave without accepting the diagnosis and agreeing to take medication for it. They were kept for between seven and 52 days. None of the actors were identified as imposters by hospital staff, although 35 patients suspected them of being journalists rather than patients.
A secondary experiment was run after the scandal of the first experiment. A teaching and research hospital challenged Rosenhan to attempt to send an actor to them. Rosenhan agreed to the challenge but then refrained from sending any actors. Over the course of three months, in which 193 patients were admitted, the hospital identified 41 of them as imposters with an additional 42 considered suspicious.Show more

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"This lecture begins with the second half of the discussion on social psychology. Students will learn about several important factors influencing how we form impressions of others, including our ability to form rapid impressions about people. This discussion focuses heavily upon stereotypes, including a discussion...

"This lecture begins with the second half of the discussion on social psychology. Students will learn about several important factors influencing how we form impressions of others, including our ability to form rapid impressions about people. This discussion focuses heavily upon stereotypes, including a discussion of their utility, reliability, and the negative effects that even implicit stereotypes can incur.
The second half of the lecture intr..."This lecture begins with the second half of the discussion on social psychology. Students will learn about several important factors influencing how we form impressions of others, including our ability to form rapid impressions about people. This discussion focuses heavily upon stereotypes, including a discussion of their utility, reliability, and the negative effects that even implicit stereotypes can incur.
The second half of the lecture introduces students to two prominent mysteries in the field of psychology. First, students will learn what is known and unknown about sleep, including why we sleep, the different types of sleep, disorders, and of course, dreams, what they are about and why we have them. Second, this half reviews how laughter remains a mysterious and interesting psychological phenomenon. Students will hear theories that attempt to explain what causes us to laugh and why, with a particular emphasis on current evolutionary theory.
00:00 - Chapter 1. First and Fast: How We Form Impressions of Others
11:15 - Chapter 2. Positive Uses and Negative Effects of Stereotypes
27:19 - Chapter 3. Implicit Attitudes
34:47 - Chapter 4. Question and Answer on Stereotypes
38:09 - Chapter 5. The Minor Mystery of Sleep
44:49 - Chapter 6. The Greater Mystery of Dreams
51:31 - Chapter 7. The True Mystery of Laughter"
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"Dr. Niall McLaren, an Australian practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, explains what is wrong with the psychiatric profession: That it cannot/will not take criticism, for fear the entire model of biological psychiatry will unravel.
That there is no science to psychiatric diagnoses, no brain based diseases. And th...

"Dr. Niall McLaren, an Australian practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, explains what is wrong with the psychiatric profession: That it cannot/will not take criticism, for fear the entire model of biological psychiatry will unravel.
That there is no science to psychiatric diagnoses, no brain based diseases. And that psychiatry only pushes mental disorders
as biological disease in order to convince people to take psychiatric drugs, causing a host..."Dr. Niall McLaren, an Australian practicing psychiatrist for 22 years, explains what is wrong with the psychiatric profession: That it cannot/will not take criticism, for fear the entire model of biological psychiatry will unravel.
That there is no science to psychiatric diagnoses, no brain based diseases. And that psychiatry only pushes mental disorders
as biological disease in order to convince people to take psychiatric drugs, causing a host of dangerous side effects.
For more psychiatrists/psychologists and doctors who have spoken out against the fraud of psychiatry's biological model of mental disorders"
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"The documentary film Asylum (Peter Robinson, 1972), a model of cinema verité, commemorates 40 years of its release. The film documents one of the most controversial projects in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy. At its center is Archway, part of a community founded in London where therapists and patien...

"The documentary film Asylum (Peter Robinson, 1972), a model of cinema verité, commemorates 40 years of its release. The film documents one of the most controversial projects in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy. At its center is Archway, part of a community founded in London where therapists and patients sought new ways of working and living together.
A panel discussion will reflect on the legacy of the late Scottish psychiatrist R...."The documentary film Asylum (Peter Robinson, 1972), a model of cinema verité, commemorates 40 years of its release. The film documents one of the most controversial projects in the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy. At its center is Archway, part of a community founded in London where therapists and patients sought new ways of working and living together.
A panel discussion will reflect on the legacy of the late Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing's legacy in the era of wonder-drugs, and a glimpse into footage from his 1972 U.S. college campus tour. Speakers: Richard Ware Adams, cameraman/editor of Asylum; Roberta Russell, author, with R. D. Laing, of R. D. Laing and Me: Lessons in Love (1992); Daniel Burston, Ph. D., Chair of Psychology Department, Duquesne University (Pittsburgh), author of The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R. D. Laing (1996) and The Crucible of Experience: R. D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy (2000).
Sponsored by the Program Committee of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Cabinet Magazine, and The New School.
Location: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall."
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David Rosenhan's famous experiment in 1973, where a group of pseudopatients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals after feigning auditory hallucinations, challenged the whole basis of psychiatric diagnosis and care. This excerpt comes from the Rosenhan's Experiment: Being Sane in Insane Places program. Purchase y...

David Rosenhan's famous experiment in 1973, where a group of pseudopatients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals after feigning auditory hallucinations, challenged the whole basis of psychiatric diagnosis and care. This excerpt comes from the Rosenhan's Experiment: Being Sane in Insane Places program. Purchase your full copy at www.VEA.com.au and subscribe to this channel to easily view more educational videos.

"Thomas Szasz is a psychiatrist and author well known for his criticism of the modern psychiatry movement. He has consistently sought to apply classical liberal principles (such as bodily and mental self ownership) to social science and also explored the consequences of mandatory institutionalization of persons th...

"Thomas Szasz is a psychiatrist and author well known for his criticism of the modern psychiatry movement. He has consistently sought to apply classical liberal principles (such as bodily and mental self ownership) to social science and also explored the consequences of mandatory institutionalization of persons the state deemed to be insane. In his book, The Myth of Mental Illness (1960), Szasz claims that psychiatry ultimately robs people of the..."Thomas Szasz is a psychiatrist and author well known for his criticism of the modern psychiatry movement. He has consistently sought to apply classical liberal principles (such as bodily and mental self ownership) to social science and also explored the consequences of mandatory institutionalization of persons the state deemed to be insane. In his book, The Myth of Mental Illness (1960), Szasz claims that psychiatry ultimately robs people of the responsibility of being moral agents by obscuring the difference between socially unacceptable behavior and disease.
In this lecture, given at the National Libertarian Party's Nominating Convention in 1983, Szasz compares the influence of psychiatry on the public with the influence of religion on the public (usually with the backing of the respective king or government body) during the Middle Ages. Szasz points out that the state's tendency to use science as a justification for trampling the rights of individuals today is much like the state's tendency to use religious justifications to trample the rights of individuals in days past. Szasz once wrote in 1974:
""Since theocracy is the rule of God or its priests, and democracy the rule of the people or of the majority, pharmacracy is therefore the rule of medicine or of doctors."""
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